THE Scots band, who will be supporting Simple Minds at Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebration, are back in the studio recording a follow-up to their fourth album, Cheeky For A Reason.

SCOTS rocker Kyle Falconer has revealed he is taking inspiration from American song legend Barbra Streisand during studio sessions.

The View frontman says the band’s producer Owen Morris plays the American singer’s hits, such as The Way We Were and Evergeen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born).

Kyle, 25, says hearing Streisand, now 70, has helped him raise his game and added: “The love that is in the room when we work with Owen is a mutual appreciation society. I’ll be moping about the studio and everything will be average. Then he will put on a Barbra Streisand song out of the blue and I will sit there crying.

“She tugs at my heart-strings. It inspires me and then Owen says, ‘Right, let’s do it’. Suddenly, the magic is there. He really knows how to get the best out of us.”

The View are back in the studio with Morris for the follow-up to their fourth album, Cheeky For A Reason, which reached the Top 10 in July.

Kyle admits previous sessions with Morris, who worked with Oasis and The Verve, as well as The View’s chart-topping debut album Hats Off To The Buskers, proved costly.

“We spent a fortune on the second album because we went to No1 and thought we were millionaires,” said Kyle. “We also thought Owen was paying for everything but we were.

“We had lobster every night and got taxis everywhere. We hired hot air balloons, bought motorbikes and puppies, crashed lots of cars. It was good fun, though.”

The Dundonian outfit are seeing out 2012 in style with a performance at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Concert in Princes Street Gardens supporting Simple Minds. The gig follows two dates at Glasgow’s Barrowland and a show in Dundee.

View bassist Kieren Webster said: “It’s going to be great. We went to the Hogmanay gig two years ago and saw The Charlatans and The Coral. It was a brilliant atmosphere and I was thinking, ‘I want to be on that stage doing that gig’ and it has come round.

“It’s good to have a gig on Hogmanay because it gives us something to do. It is a big pay day for traditional bands and cover bands.”

Kyle added: “It’s hard to keep cool when you are trying to stay sober. My sister was in a covers band and would play gigs every Hogmanay. I would be allowed into pubs to see her from the age of 10.

“It made me so happy when a song got dedicated to me. I loved it when they played Abba’s Winner Takes It All.

“I’m very sentimental about songs like that because my sister would give me a wink and a wee wave with her tambourine.

“In Dundee, Hogmanay is a big thing. You walk past your neighbour every day but on Hogmanay he walks through your door.

“Me and Webbie live in London now. Can you imagine random neighbours walking in to first foot?”

The View’s Edinburgh concert will mark another high point in a year that saw the band written off by many when they parted company with Columbia label, 1965 Records.

They landed a new deal with Cooking Vinyl and released Cheeky For A Reason, which topped the charts in Scotland and made it to No9 in the UK albums chart.

Next, the band hope to crack the American market. They are scheduled to perform in New York in April as part of Scotland week and are planning a tour.

Kyle said: “At the start of our career, we lost a bit of momentum. When we started, there was a sense in the air that it was all kicking off.

“Since then, the people who were into us have grown up.

“Hopefully, there are still kids over there who think we’re cool.”

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The View are delighted to be included in the line-up of acts performing with the Stone Roses at Glasgow Green next summer.

Kieren said: “Mani from the Stone Roses is our pal.

“We thought he had left us out when we didn’t get to support them at Heaton Park earlier this year.

“But he had a plan all along. It’s a super-cool line-up – Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Jake Bugg and us.

“I think about the Stone Roses gig at Glasgow Green every day.

“There will be nostalgia as well because it is Glasgow Green.

“I didn’t get to see the Roses there but my uncles would tell me about it. Now I’m getting to play with them.”

Kyle added: “I always hoped we’d get to do the gig.

“I wanted to know why all those other bands were getting to support the Roses at Heaton Park in the summer and we were being left out.

“But Mani is our good pal and said they had the Glasgow gig up their sleeve.

“It reminds me of the Christmas Kieren opened up his present and it was a tool kit. He was crushed until his dad said, ‘To go with your new bike’.”

The band intend to release their next album at the gig but one thing not on the cards for 2013 is Kyle’s wedding to singer girlfriend Carly Connor, despite his repeated proposals.

Kyle said: “Who doesn’t propose to their bird when they are drunk?

“When I ask her to marry me, I’m just joking. Every guy does that when he is drunk.

“Carly also proposes to me.

“But I would like to get married.”

One of his new songs on the album will be the footstomper Kill Kyle, which transforms Carly into a murderous stalker.

“It’s about an obsessive woman trying to kill me, slipping knives in the sink when you are doing the dishes and things get worse and worse.

“It would be nice to get Carly to do some backing vocals.

“I love the Beautiful South and if Carly and I sang together like that it would be great.”